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A marigold as seen in a small field. "Marigolds" is a 1969 short story by Eugenia Collier. The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [1]
Eugenia W. Collier (born April 6, 1928) [1] is an American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the first Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction in 1969; it was Collier’s first published story. [2] [3] She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Collier's collection, Breeder and Other Stories, was released in 1993 ...
Collier writes in the introduction: "The business of plays is to recommend Vertue, and discountenance Vice" (Collier 1). However, the Restoration playwright rarely saw their function within Collier's strictures; in Congreve's dedication to The Double-Dealer (1693), he writes, "It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of ...
Marigold, a British film; Marigold, a Bollywood romantic comedy; Marigold, a Kannada thriller; Marigold Gregson, a character on the British drama series Downton Abbey "Marigold", nickname for the character Winston Spencer Churchill in the British television series In Sickness and in Health
[1] Written originally for television, the musical focuses on Charles ( Anthony Perkins ), a poet who takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a department store after closing. He meets a community of night people who live in the store and falls in love with a beautiful young girl named Ella ( Charmian Carr ).
[1] The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Mercer Arts Center on April 7, 1970, and closed on May 14, 1972, after 819 performances. Directed by Melvin Bernhardt, the cast featured Swoosie Kurtz (Janice Vickery), Amy Levitt (Ruth), Judith Lowry (Nanny), Pamela Payton-Wright (Tillie), and Sada Thompson (Beatrice) and Joan Blondell (Beatrice). [2]
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1972 American drama film produced and directed by Paul Newman. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1964 play of the same title by Paul Zindel. Newman cast his wife, Joanne Woodward, and one of their daughters, Nell Potts, in two of the lead roles.
Frontispiece: "The Cat doth play,/ And after slay." – Childs Guide The Essay is modelled on Jonathan Swift's satire Instructions to Servants (1746), and even mentions Swift directly, [6] but Collier reverses the roles in Swift's satire and instead writes from a servant's perspective in the first book. [3]